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Army says rebels kill eight in northern Uganda
28 May 2005 15:45:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
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GULU, Uganda, May 28 (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels killed at least eight people in an attack on villagers in a remote northern district, the army and aid workers said on Saturday.
Some of the victims were dragged to the middle of a road after being shot and beaten to death by fighters from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
"Eight people were killed. This was a desperate attack on civilians, but our forces are on the ground to capture these bandits and punish them," said Lieutenant Tabaro Kiconco, army spokesman in the north.
Uganda's military often says it is close to defeating the cult-like LRA after 19 years of war, but attacks -- mostly on civilians forced into refugee camps by the fighting -- have continued.
Aid workers in the region said the remains of the latest victims were found early on Friday by a truck convoy carrying humanitarian supplies to a camp about 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Kitgum town.
"The bodies had been deliberately dragged into the road to be found like that," one aid worker told Reuters in Gulu, the main town in the north.
The aid workers said another six people wounded in the attack died on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 14, but the army denied that.
Both sides have stepped up attacks following the breakdown earlier this year of landmark peace talks aimed at ending one of Africa's longest-running conflicts.
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